Base on early drawings and prototpye photos I think we have been seeing two teams making SOC - one use older hand drawing method and focus on classic designs, e.g. Daimos and Daitarn 3, the other one use CAD and focus on new designs, e.g. Jeeg & Daizengar. The CAD team can probably finish their work faster.

The Mazinger is a simple design and probably rushed ahead of others to match the new anime broadcast.

Tekkaman Blade with Pegas will be coming out July, priced at 13980 yen.

Price is kinda high but I think given that the SPEC releases are more niche oriented and probably have smaller production runs than regular SOC (notice how the SPEC ones seems to sell out faster than the regular SOC releases), I'm willing to accept it given that it's FINALLY an honest to goodness toy of the damn guy.

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I asked if I have "Time For L-Gaim" but I got "No Reply From The Wind".

The Godmarz video kicks much ass. I wish all contemporary anime would be like that instead of the "awesome" creative output currently flooding the market with 1/7 scale figures of... Fuck, I got off on a tangent.

What I really wanted to rant about was how I clicked on a linked video of the SOC Daimos. I was, foolishly, expecting the same thing as the Godmarz video. Instead I got a series of Bandai publicity shots of the toy set to music. Gaah! Another fucking slide-show on YouTube! Fuck!

YouTube is full of hilarious unintentional retardation, but the slide-show thing really needs to stop. It's certifiably retarded-retarded. If I wanted to listen to crappy music while I looked at Bandai's pretty pictures of Daimos I would just sing to myself while I fap-off to their homepage. Like I usually do. It's not a service if I'm already doing it, see?

So now my day is ruined because I didn't get to see another awesome Gumbymation of a toy I don't own doing amazing things. Thanks, Internets!

It definitely would NOT have fit in with anything other than 7" sized figures. For such an obscure design, they did a good job with it. Or, at least as good as job as any other SIC-style release at the time. Excellent sculpting and detail, good paint, and floppy articulation. Easily worth about half as much as they charged for it...

Nice pic link Red. Only beefus I have with the BigO pic, is that the helmet/headpiece looks solid. Would be cool if it came out plastic translucent red, as in the show, and that earlier Bandai plastic release.

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